VP Product, Project Management

Job description

CIT is a leading national bank focused on empowering businesses and personal savers with the financial agility to navigate their goals. CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) is a financial holding company with over a century of experience and operates a principal bank subsidiary, CIT Bank, N.A. (Member FDIC, Equal Housing Lender). The company's commercial banking segment includes commercial financing, community association banking, middle market banking, equipment and vendor financing, factoring, railcar financing, treasury and payments services, and capital markets and asset management. CIT's consumer banking segment includes a national direct bank and regional branch network. Discover more at cit.com/about .

Reporting to the SVP, of Product Development for CIT's Business Capital division, the VP, Project Manager will be responsible for supporting several strategic initiatives and effectively driving outcomes across multiple cross-functional projects.

Responsibilities:

• This role provides highly specialized support to business and functional support units and is responsible for the overall planning, direction, coordination, execution, implementation, control, and completion of specific projects.
• This role will manage multiple diverse projects simultaneously that are tied directly to the corporate strategy.
• This role will require the Project Manager to be directly connected to the topic, objective, and results of the program. Additionally, it is anticipated that the Project Manager will be able to provide advisory (consultative support) on the solution and implementation, including any re-engineering and optimization of the end-state model/results.
• Communicate product/project plans to key stakeholders in a timely manner
• Lead group discussions to ensure cross-functional interaction occurs

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10 years related experience required (financial services and program/project management), with BS/BA degree, MBA preferred. 5+ Years of management experience (direct and indirect)
• Experience in financial services industry - Commercial and Consumer Banking, Lending, leasing preferred, with strong understand of the identifying project requirements and processes/procedures
• Excellent organizational, planning and prioritization skills.
• Effective oral and written communications.
• Ability to function in a highly matrixed environment
• Proven record of leadership experience in managing complex processes and or large projects
• The ability to effectively manage and navigate through the multi-faced disciplines throughout the firm
• Orientation to client, workflow, and system - end to end thinking of automation, cost reduction, error reduction
• Ability to exercise initiative, problem identification, problem solving, and independent decision making
• Energetic leader who inspired others to the mission and cultivates partnerships Motivation and enthusiasm, and ability to take ownership of initiatives

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